Okay, I just want to point something out here and now!

This is a BBxR fic. Therefore it will be based around Raven and Beastboy. Therefore Terra is merely part of the story. Also, I do dislike Terra (read my other fic – Miss Independent for proof) and so trust me, things will happen.

Without giving more away, I can't tell you much else. So please, just trust me on this one, and cope with the BBxT fluff..I promise it's part of the story!

BBxR forever:lighter:

Secondly, sorry if the characters sound a bit OOC but as I did say it is based upon my own friends as well so apologies! Please just bear with me!

Thanks for reviewing everyone!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans…yet….

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Chapter two

As the fifth day passed, Raven still didn't emerge from her room, choosing to ignore all outside communication.

"Friend? Friend!" shouted Star into the metal door. Raven closed her eyes.

"Please, I merely wish to talk to you," spoke the quiet Tameranian voice.

'This is the fourth time today,' thought Raven, running her hand over her head. It was getting ridiculous. She walked to the door quietly, and ran her hand to the split, pulling it inches open.

"What," stated the gothic girl, showing no trace of emotion. Starfire's worried face peeked through, eyebrows raised, mouth down turned.

"Friend, I am most worried for you," began Star, slowly. Raven blinked.

"I'm fine."

"You haven't exited your room for many days!"

"I'm fine."

"You have not eaten properly in hours!"

"I'm fine," Raven repeated, going to close the door. But the Tameranian had put her foot in it. She forced it open and the mere strength toppled the Azarathian over.

Starfire closed the door behind her and rested against it. Raven looked up angrily.

"Starfire, you are in my roo—"

"No, Raven," Star cut in, in a tone very motherly and defiant. "You shall listen for once."

Raven, shocked at the authoritarian tone to Starfire's voice struggled to her bed and sat like an obedient child.

'Maybe if I let her go on, she'll leave me alone,' Raven thought, hopefully.

"I am very pleased to see friend Terra, but it distresses me that you are not," Star continued. Raven glanced up.

"I am pleased to see he—"

"Then why, why must you stay in here all day? Why do you insist upon ignoring us? Recently, you have almost vanished from the team, and it worries me greatly! You are my best friend here, Raven, even though Terra is back. And I do not wish to see you unhappy. So, it is better for both of us if you tell me what is the matter."

"Nothing—"

"RAVEN!" screamed Starfire, her eyes glowing a wild green colour, and her face shaking with anger. It was obvious that the Tameranian was not in a mood to be messed with and Raven submitted.

"I can't tell you."

Starfire immediately softened, as if she was a different person and sat down on the bed beside Raven.

"Why not?"

"Because you wouldn't understand. Because you'll think I'm stupid. Because I don't want to tell anyone. Ever."

"All of these things are not valid reasons," Starfire observed truthfully. "For I should tell you anything."

"Yes, I know," Raven added patiently. "But you aren't like me, Star. That's the problem."

"But I was you once! I experienced your powers, remember?"

"Yes," Raven continued, the tears growing under her hood. "But you didn't experience my heart."

The words stunned the Tameranian to the core. She could barely move. The fact that she was an alien did not detract from the fact that she understood love.

"It is Beastboy," she stated, causing Raven to look up sorrowfully. Looking back down at her hands the Azarathian sighed.

"Raven," Star asked, assertively. "I believe we must leave the tower to go to the mall of shopping, for I fear that this is not the best place to discuss this. Yes?"

"I really don't want to," Raven answered. "I'd rather be alone."

Her stomach gurgled and she put a hand over it protectively. Starfire gazed at it, then up again at the girl, her look of humour.

"Your stomach wishes to differ!"

Raven closed one eye and gave a small smile. "Alright."

Starfire nodded and walked out of the room, the pensive dark girl wandering behind her.

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As they sat down to get pizza, Starfire sipped on some mustard and sighed. "I do not understand."

Raven was pushing the ice around in her cup, and looked up.

"I do not understand why it is that you have not told Beastboy."

"Maybe for the same reason you haven't told Robin," countered Raven, smirking at the Tameranian's discomfort.

"What? I…I do not know of what you refer to," Star stammered, blushing so she matched the umbrella above them. Raven gave a low chuckle.

"Oh, right," she jeered. "What was it you said earlier? 'I should tell you anything'!"

Star sighed, defeated. "Alright, it is true. But this does not mean I would tell him even if I could."

"Same reason here. I can't tell him. Not now, anyway."

"Because of Terra?"

"Yes, because of Terra."

There was a quiet silence as the girls slurped their drinks.

"I…I know I should have told him," began Raven suddenly, her heart in her throat. "But I never could find the words and now…I wish I had tried harder."

"Yes, this is indeed a grave problem."

Star tutted and played with her hair. She looked up at the sadness in the Azarathian girl and it pained her.

"What pains me most, friend," continued Star. "Is that now Terra is on the team again, what shall you do? You cannot spend the rest of your life in that room."

Raven gritted her teeth. "Don't you think I know that?"

"I am sorry. I was stating that which is obvious I know, but I merely wondered what you planned on doing."

"I plan on acting normal. What else can I do? And staying away from Beastboy – and Terra."

"Yes, I agree this would be best," agreed Star, nodding vehemently. "That way it would pain you less."

"Besides," continued Raven sadly. "Remember when Malchior was with me and we spent all our time together in my room?"

She paused as Star nodded.

"Well Beastboy was really concerned then. He even knocked on my door to try to get me to come out. But the past five days…he hasn't even bothered. It's like I don't exist anymore."

"Raven, there is something I need to tell you," Star jabbered nervously, biting her lip. Raven looked up and her stomach sank.

"What?" she managed, emotionlessly.

"There is a reason for Beastboy not being concerned…Beastboy and Terra," started the Tameranian. "They are…together properly now. They have been inseparable for many of the hours in the day."

Raven felt as if she was about to die. Her stomach sank to the bottom of the world, her head span and she felt as if she were drowning. She fell of her chair.

Star squealed and pulled her back up again. "Friend! Are you alright?"

"Yeah," covered up the Azarathian. "I think it's the lack of food."

"Of course!" nodded Star, as the pizza arrived. As Raven ate it, but it may as well have been cardboard. All she could think about was them, and the umbrella smashed into a million pieces along with four tables along the row.

"Uhh," Rae stumbled, embarrassed. "Oops."

"It is alright. Perhaps we should get back now anyway," Star added, brightly. Raven nodded half heartedly, though she couldn't think of anything she would hate more.

She didn't want to be anywhere near them. Not now, not ever.

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Bit of a morbid chappie – hope the next one will be better!

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